Lerone Bennett Jr.'s legacy and his influence in Chicago is being remembered by those who knew him. As we celebrate Black History Month, we mourn the passing of a black history icon, ...

Lerone Bennett Jr. was a longtime Chicago journalist whose chronicling of African-American history took several forms, including authoring highly regarded and sometimes provocative books and ...

Lerone Bennett Jr., a historian and journalist who chronicled the African American experience in articles and books, including the landmark “Before the Mayflower” and a provocative study that ...

CHICAGO – Lerone Bennett Jr., an African-American history author and former editor of Ebony magazine, has died at age 89. A.A. Rayner and Sons Funeral Home in Chicago said Thursday that Bennett ...

Lerone Bennett, Jr. delivered the keynote address for the 12th annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers' Conference. This year’s conference theme… September 24, 2000 ...

Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream with Lerone Bennett, Jr. is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a column that included the following guidance from journalist-historian-author-master teacher Lerone Bennett Jr.: “Given the way we are forced to live in this society, the ...

Lerone Bennett Jr., a historian and journalist who wrote extensively on race relations and black history and was a top editor at Ebony magazine for decades, died Wednesday in Chicago. He was 89.

Lerone Bennett Jr. On the C-SPAN Networks: Lerone Bennett Jr. is an Author with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Booknotes.The year with the highest average ...